The meaning of “נָגַר”
Understanding nâgar reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
fall, flow away, pour down (out), run, shed, spilt, trickle down. - to flow - figuratively, to stretch out - causatively...
נָגַר
fall, flow away, pour down (out), run, shed, spilt, trickle down. - to flow - figuratively, to stretch out - causatively, to pour out or down - figuratively, to deliver over 1) to pour, run, flow, pour down 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be poured, be spilt 1a2) to pour oneself, flow, trickle 1a3) to vanish (fig.) 1a4) to be stretched out 1b) (Hiphil) to pour down 1c) (Hophal) to melt
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Samuel 14:14 | “For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.” Word: נָגַר (nâgar) | |
| Job 20:28 | “The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.” Word: נָגַר (nâgar) | |
| Psalms 75:8 | “For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.” Word: נָגַר (nâgar) | |
| Jeremiah 18:21 | “Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.” Word: נָגַר (nâgar) | |
| Lamentations 3:49 | “Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,” Word: נָגַר (nâgar) |
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